LatinAmerica Tours & Travel

We will be up at dawn for a visit to Tres Chimbadas Lake (thirty minutes by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada Amazonas). Once there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of the lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers. Otters are most active from dawn to eight or nine in the morning.
The next stop is at the parrot clay lick (only a twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas). From a blind located about twenty meters away you will see dozens of parrots and parakeets descend on most clear mornings to ingest the clay on a river bank. Species such as Mealy and Yellow-headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot and Dusky-headed Parakeet descend at this clay lick. The clay lick is most active at dawn and during the late mornings and mid-afternoons.

In the afternoon we will visit ‘Centro Nape’. From this ethnobotanical center the community has been registering the uses of medicinal plants from elders and planting, producing and distributing them for over ten years. We will hike the trails around the center with one of the residents who will explain to us the everyday uses of forest resources in medicine, construction, food and fiber. We will return to Posada Amazonas for dinner and overnight.

You will have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories.(Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner)